Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportskunstner
Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis Police Department. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready
Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “arbejdet” matches thrown in the mix. Ved 1904 eller 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,
Den January 10, 1940, Rowland V. Lee released his low-budget feature film The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) through United Artists. Rowland V. Lee started directing films in 1920 and would make 59 films before retiring in 1945. I denne film, Louis Hayward plays The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes, Jr. Greven arver sin fars penge og
På mandag, Maj 30, 1892, den store Peter Jackson boksede en handskekamp med den tidligere protegé Frank Slavin. Begge mænd boede og kæmpede i Australien, selvom fans interesse fik Jackson til at turnere verden rundt for at udnytte de økonomiske muligheder i USA og England. Som i Australien, Jackson fandt ofte, at hvide boksere var uvillige til at kæmpe mod ham. Få
St. Louis, i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede, havde en fremtrædende professionel boksescene. Abe Attell, selvom han er født i San Francisco, havde base i St. Louis. On February 1, 1904, Attell forsvarede sit verdensmesterskab i fjervægt i boksning mod den hyppige rival Harry Forbes. Forbes var også en fast mand på St. Louis boksescene. Forbes besejrede Danny Dougherty for
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Men, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford betragtes som en af de største pund for pund krigere af hele tiden. Født i marts 4, 1883 i Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, han betragtes som den største canadiske bokser gennem tiderne. Hans kampkarriere strakte sig fra 1900 til 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Han
Gorilla (1939) er en komedie-mysterium “B” film stjernespækket Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi og Lionell Atwill. Filmen blev produceret af Twentieth-Century Fox, før de afslutter making “B” film, the first film on a double bill. The Ritz Brothers var aktive mellem 1925 og 1960'erne, when Al Ritz the oldest brother passed away. The brothers made
Oktober 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship men forblev ude af rampelyset indtil
På November 7, 1908, Charles Olson mødte “Americus” Gus Schonlein til World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Kampen viste sig at være lige så spændende, som observatører havde mistanke om, den ville være, men den endte i kontrovers. Olson blev 6’01” men vejede kun 170 pounds. Født Max Flaskamp i Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen i 1879, han tog navnet Charles eller Charley Olson